shining through/ words and music by doris muramatsu

the rising moon drew the lines on your face / and in ten quick steps, with misty breath, we locked into one pace / (chorus) you were so far away from me, that I couldn't even see you / but something's changed, and I feel you shining through / these days I thrive in a world of my friends / but I follow what's true, and I'm just terribly struck by you / (chorus) / the snow filled the grooves of your parking space / and I wished to god that this could be your place / with every tick of the clock I see the mystery revealed / and in effect, it's getting harder to conceal / (chorus)

sometimes/ words and music by doris muramatsu

there's a crack in my window where the rain peeks in, but i sit and stare indifferently / there's a hole in my chest that refuses to mend / you're away where you thought you'd do best / it's been a long time since the day we agreed to disagree / but sometimes, i'm so lonely i could cry / now a distant occupation is harmless enough, but the ties of commonality can blind me with rage / and i miss you most when the day is not day, when the last car pulls into its space / how much longer can a photograph sustain the life we supposedly live? / 'cause sometimes i'm so lonely i could cry/ it seems that lately we've been fussing over things so lame / my body's
wasted from all the things i can't explain / there's a crack in my window where the rain peeks in, but i sit and stare indifferently

universal kiss/ words and music by tammy greenstein

how I wish my days would conform to one consistent truth / and when I lifted my head off the pillow every morning I would know just what to do / but my love, you know, you can't be sure / that I'm the one you're looking for / you may be right, but you've been wrong before / I was raised to believe I could do anything I wanted to do / so I've worked this hard to create the life I believe I am choosing / but mom, though you were brave back then / you left yourself and you lost him / you had it once, now you'll have to start again/ again is something we don't touch / how can there be more than this? / let me feel your common touch, this universal kiss / the light that shines on us is the easiest to miss / and in the dark of night I will reach for you, it's only desire / and in the morning I'll reach for the clouds and I'll stand on my toes so that I can reach higher / and still I know I won't be sure that this is what I'm looking for / I may be right, but I've been wrong before

turning tables/ words and music by doris muramatsu

you close your eyes and think I can't see you / leaving's your
job, and leaving me is what you do / but I want you to know, it can work both ways / I can pack my bags and go away / why does it hurt so, to be the one who remains? / I should buy a car, just to be the one who drives away / and then you'll know, and then, I can hear you say, "I hate when she packs
her things and drives away, drives away from me."

drawn/ words and music by tammy greenstein

you take the time to make your coffee right / then you drink it down like water / and all your urgent phone calls in the middle of the night / when I can only hear your side / I dream some nights the world is ending / and there you are down the hall like a long lost friend that I've only met in passing / so you pass me by and the story ends / do I remind you of something you've lost? / or maybe I just can't pay the rising cost of being drawn to you / they say the sun on long island is hotter than it is here / and I remember the day you left, this time last year / when I looked at you, you looked back / nothing lost or gained and all your bags were packed / but there was no danger of a kiss / this was not love, this is all that it is / I was drawn to you, to you


shadow of a habit/ words and music by doris muramatsu & tammy greenstein

the shadow of a habit is the cruelest of forms / it lurks out from behind the stairs / it crawls out from the corners of the unswept floor / of its weight in the world it's unaware / as a child I did the things my mother taught me / as a child I did the things that I was told / but I never thought the things that would hurt me were these lessons of youth, observation's result / (chorus) but I've got to leave somehow / I've got to change my foolish ways / I've got to arrange myself / and shed the act and show my face / please god don't let me be disappointed / please god cause I'm keeping the faith / it's a toss-up between life and convention / don't let me look back at an empty space / (chorus) / I'm not the type who wants to run away, but leave the door open just in case / I'm not scared, but I'm staying right here / (chorus) / these things they carry us through our days . . .


no better/ words & music by tammy greenstein

lying in bed I see the tops of the trees / and then a great sheet of white / and if I would get up and walk over to the window / I would see the people walking by / it's not as if I am alone in this world / my thoughts are soaked with the spill of you / and all of this love I could show with one touch / but you won't let me come through / what do you think I have in store for you? / I'm so easy, all I want is to please / and there is no secret that I have not told / show me the rhyme of your ways, 'cause there is no reason for treason / it's not as if you are alone in this world / I gave you mine when your prayers were not heard / and if I gave you a dollar for every time I've pictured us together / you'd be rich but no better / lying in bed I see the tops of the trees / and then a great sheet of white / and if I could get up, walk over to the window / I would see the people walking by


cascade/ words and music by tammy greenstein

let's take the path to the top of cascade / let the world below us fade from view / (that's all I ever want it to do) / you know the way, so I'll take your hand / for today, we can lean on the land / nothing is said for two hours or more / I forget what this walking is for / how did you even find this up here? you're a city girl / and I was born in the suburbs, raised under such a sheltering sky / and I follow you lightly cause you come and you go / and I don't know why / but don't let me believe / and let's take the path to the top of cascade, cause the view up there was made for you / this is our time, it is not ours to question why / we will seek and we will climb for as long as we're alive / meet me at the bottom where the light on your eyes will be the coolest blue on the hottest day in july


safety of my bedroom/ words and music by doris muramatsu
for mom

I am frightened by the sound of loud footsteps / it takes me back to the time when I fled /and I could care less about the ringing in my ears/ just as long as I can see and I can feel / (chorus) you said no one could replace me, that time would pass gently / you said logic was the only thing you had left / I don't dare to understand what you were thinking when the
taillights of your car were all my memory could spare / it's been a long time since I told you what I'm thinking / in fact I know my voice has left me all too soon / and so I write you from the safety of my bedroom / to forgive is not all that's left to do / (chorus) / and now I'm twice as old as you were when you left me / it seems I've been through just as many wars as you/ there is a reason and a kindness settled in me / we presume to do the best that we can do / (chorus)


weightless/ words and music by tammy greenstein

there's five months of winter on this coast / and five days until her birthday / I know it was a long time ago, but I think of her when I see snow / and I've memorized the details of this room / but I'm happier when I finally leave it / I wrap up warmly in my days / and at night, I lay that time to waste / oh, then just at the right time / there's so much I forget, so I take my shoulders down / sit a while and watch the sun go down / weightless / somehow we found that place on the sixth floor / with a european skyline out the window / the elevator just two people wide / but we fit so well, side by side / and oh, in your room with the light on / I could have kissed you then, for so long / and I remember lying awake that night / and the softest thunder in the moonlight / I was weightless


kicking/ words and music by tammy greenstein
for my mom and her mom

I had to go / I would not have lasted long / but with the cold in the winter, how was I to know that I would miss you when you were gone? / you could spend half your life living with your mother / putting all your weight on one foot and kicking with the other / I'm standing by my window and I can see the light shine through my hands / history. . .I could slip through my own fingers and that's how small I am / you could spend half your life sitting on intention / I know what it's like to get pulled along by dreams you do not mention / so take me back through intuition, the stories of your life I'm missing / and I want to, but there's loveliness in loneliness / it's the only thing that keeps me here like this / just for the record, I'm not as far as I seem / I play with words, I play with time / I fall back through empty space into your arms from three thousand miles away / you could spend half your life fighting with your mother / putting all your weight on one foot and kicking with the other


NEW SONGS!

even if/ words and music by doris muramatsu

she never has time to inspect her surroundings / it's touch and go with everything / it's never enough to be sitting with nothing / she's never too tired to run / chorus: and even if she had her way, she'd be seeking out another / she'll be half asleep during the day / and sleepless every other / close the door / feeling trapped by her living / she reaches for activity / turn the page, see the line drawn through the day / wherein lies life's ecstasy? / chorus / she reaches for a piece of silver / hoping gold is just beneath the surface / I tell her color is way overrated / she shakes her head / chorus

earthquakes/ words and music by tammy greenstein

well the earth shakes, and I'm lying awake on the other side of the moon / and the earthquakes in turkey, as far away as I feel from you / and they say that it won't happen here / but when the laser beam breaks through the clouds one year, will the love be clear on your face? / tell me baby, how long will you wait? / well I took this apartment for the view of the water, but instead I watch people walk to their cars / watch the airplanes take flight in the sky at night / and the satellites look like stars / and nothing real bad happens here / but when the laser beam breaks through the clouds that year, will forgiveness appear on your face? / tell me baby, how long will you wait? / and tonight on the news, the weatherman told of a terrible storm / and I wanted to call you and tell you, somehow I thought you should be warned / as though you might let me try to make you feel safe and warm / cause when something does happen here / yeah, the river floods over, the warplanes appear / and we go with hardly a trace / oh baby, is that what it takes? / tell me baby, how long will you wait?

sacred hand/ words and music by doris muramatsu

a thousand years ago you might have walked with practicals / but now you follow your own faith / it's scary to admit that i've let go controlling it / so tilt your head up to the light / chorus: mother read me to bed tonight / it's only seven after nine pm / I always wonder if you think that I'm not chosen by the sacred hand / I never had the chance for city nights or blind romance / I only knew the names of stars / it's funny how you see what others do so blindlessly / follow you, follow me / chorus / questions about your days are still a bit confusing / but at least I know you're on your way / I told you once before that time will only open doors / and that is just enough for me / chorus

santa lucia in gold/ words and music by tammy greenstein

I came over for dinner last night, you made me carbonara / you said you'd written me a letter while I was out in the ventana / chorus: oh mountain by the side of the road / tell me which way I'm supposed to go / cause you are my divine sight to hold / my santa lucia in gold / you said you'd been with a woman again, and to tell the truth you really miss it / you said, "you know, I always wish that we could be together like that" / chorus / we have been here before / we have knocked on this door a hundred times / now it's the end of the line / oh mountain by the side of the road / tell me which way I'm supposed to go / save my sight, save my soul / santa lucia in gold / my santa lucia in gold

amaze me/ words and music by tammy greenstein

new jersey born, yeah / the flat land of nebraska / from decatur, georgia / to california / let's dig up the map and / let's leave while we're happy / i wanna see tuscon / before it's all gone / chorus: amaze me, america / save me from armageddon, high road to heaven / eight hours at the airport / wanna hightail to gulfport / wanna sit on the back porch / and stare at the stars / from the chemical water / of new york's dirty harbor / to the rock of gibraltar / at the end of the world / chorus / let's dive to atlantis / let's hear what they'd tell us / from the bottom of the ocean / I really want to know them / chorus

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